When applied to building a website or similar work product, a Visual Guide can be an intermediate step toward the end goal of a complete website. By creating a visual guide along the way, the designer or developer can get buy-in from the other people involved in the website such as the customer, their manager and other members of the team.

A visual guide could be a wireframe

Website wireframe

A website wireframe, also known as a page schematic or screen blueprint, is a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website. The wireframe depicts the page layout or arrangement of the website’s content, including interface elements and navigational systems, and how they work...

, creative composition or information architecture. A device that will enable collaboration will save time, decreasing the chance of work having to be completely redone. A manager could create a visual guide for the team to complete the build-out.

Paper prototype could be an excellent way to develop Visual Guides.

External links

Some links about this topic are:

What is Paper Prototyping www.paperprototyping.com/what.html

Paper Prototyping: Get User Data *Before* Coding (Jakob Nielsen's ... www.useit.com/alertbox/20030414.html

Five Paper Prototyping Tips www.uie.com/articles/prototyping_tips